High mortality in Appalachia Report 2022

Iceberg model 1.Event -describe about high mortality in Appalachia coal mining -give me specific number of death people. Ex. The number of death people increase from.... to...people between... and...years. -The cause of people death 2.pattern -describe about declining in people health in Appalachia coal mining -people become not healthy have diseases(what it is)

High mortality in Appalachia
From the point of view of the iceberg health model, we can figure out that the disease of Black
lungs is the most consistent reason behind the cases of the mortality in Appalachia. According to
estimation, during the last decade more than 2000 patients died of this disease. Various studies
also give us an idea that 41 percent of the deaths in this region are because of the respiratory
disorders where various reasons behind the lung failure attributed to the cause of death. During
the last decade deaths caused by opioids also emerged as a big problem. However, they are not
specific to the area of Appalachia because it was more or less like an epidemic for the entire
USA (Schuknecht, 2019).
Health Patterns on the scale of Iceberg chart
The health patterns presented in the above mentioned diagrams show us three levels. The
hazardous working conditions cannot be neglected they are the root cause behind 41 percent of
the problems. The mining sector and other sectors are working hard to come up with preventive

guidelines. These guidelines are mitigating the impact of hazardous working conditions
(Feinberg, 2019).
The recent attack of the opioids and other factors can be studied in the lifestyle and behavioral
patterns. These patterns keep on changing in accordance with the popular culture. In the special
case of Appalachia, we can witness the fact that Hazardous working conditions are the primary
reason behind the high mortality rate in Appalachia.
Bibliography
Feinberg, J. (2019). Tackle the epidemic, not the opioids. Nature,
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02671-9.
Schuknecht, C. (2019). 'I Figured It Was Going To Be A Horrible Death, And It Probably Will
Be'. NPR, https://www.npr.org/2019/01/23/686000458/i-figured-it-was-going-to-be-a-
horrible-death-and-it-probably-will-be.